Friday, 29 November 2013

Coalition of the Winning.....(cont.)

So Allies for Inquisition....

Let's have a quick review of our favourites:

1) Codex: IG

2) Codex: BA

3) Codex: SM

4) Codex: GK

Some quick thoughts....

1) IG....

Ideal fit for Ordo Xenos:
The first thing that springs to mind is the Blob Squad, fill it with power axes on the Sgts. Don't bother tagging in a Commissar, you can get a Stubborn Ld10 character without sacrificing PW attacks for a reroll...and this for around half the points....add Hammerhand and Rad Grenades done....

Karamazov....this match up was made for this guy, few tag teams offer sacrificial units like IG....infiltrate a small squad with a PW let it get charged, survive one turn and then Nuke it in your turn....."send in the next wave" would be a perfect match up for this meanie....

Ordo Hereticus and Xenos could make an evil death star with Straken in their midst....Null Rod, HH, Plas Syphon and Rads and pile into the LR, perhaps throw in Nork too for kicks....charge.....think about this with HH Straken becomes lots of attacks at Str8 (everyone else Str5) on the charge against -1T anything, with a Force weapon that can instant gibb pretty much anything and an AP3 Null rod for instant gibbing Psykers, GK etc etc....a fair few ablative wounds in the group too, perhaps issue a challenge with Straken, he'll still get the bonuses.....that's not a nice thought to be honest.....carry the Liber Heresius and cause a fear test before you've even started......it's going to cause problems....

Ordo Malleus...Terminator armour, Psycannon, DH, Warlord done

2) BA....

Wow...er Xenos for HH Rad combo...Servo Skulls...win...so many options, I can't remember if an Inquisitor could join up with a DC squad....if he could....

....for kicks how about Joining Mephiston with a couple of Sang Priests in a mini deathstar, I'm sure even Meph would like some assistance from time to time.....HH Rad grenades, Plas Syphon....anyone? As far as I'm aware Meph is a unit on his own that can be joined by ICs btw...

3) Codex: SM

But specifically FW Red Hunters.....lets take a look and remind ourselves....

Adamantium Will
Mneumonic Redaction Protocols
By this Seal, Battle Brothers with GK as long as an Inq is alive

Once per game, the same number of units (incl. Dreds) as whichever turn it is can all auto get one of the following rules:

For me any of the three highlighted are particularly good, Red Hunters Devastators are really versatile, as are Dreds....

But do they specifically benefit from having an Inq around? Well if you want GK Librarian blessings its a start....

An Inquisitor is a cheap way of teaming up with GK and getting HQs out there, but it's also a great way of laying down some serious Prescience with cheap Psykers available to give as many units as possible rerolls to hit.....this seems incredibly powerful....now in turn three or four shoot with any of these skills and shits going down.....

Now imagine carrying a Liber Heresius......Split Fire comes into it's own.....That's a lot of rerolling fire support/ anti-air....but when the protocols kick in something is going to die...

Codex GK:

The ONLY way to get any of the Elite Assassin clades......that's enough for me

Want to fight a Daemonic incursion....don't leave home without your Grimlore of True Names.....that's going to hurt something nasty a lot....

...I think the best thing here is the extra power an Inquisitor can bring to GK in linking in other allies which full fill deficiencies, light tanks in particular Predators, Vindicators, Whirlwinds etc borrowed from the Red Hunters.....

I'm sure there's millions more, opportunities provided from the Liber Heresius seem the most exciting as there are so many combo's.....